Alice Mattison Quotes
I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.
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You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.
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What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an enlightened recognition that all of humankind shares a common Creator - that we are, indeed, brothers and sisters.
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Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.
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When you're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream.
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We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
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New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.
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I believe Corot painted a tree better that any of us, but still I find him superior in his figures.
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In times of badness, gold is being worth more than beauty.
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I don't know that anyone comes from a truly functional family.
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I write sentence to sentence. That's the kind of writer I am. I don't have a plot when I begin. I have to be convinced and I have to be surprised.
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'Gone Girl' is as much about the near impossibility of being a good husband as it is about the anguish of being a good wife.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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I'm a father, and that is the absolute most important thing in my life.
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I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.
